Glove-fastening



(No Model.) 7 W. 8., RICHARDSON.

GLOVE FA S TEN-ING. No. 325,699. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

UNITED; 'STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. WILLIAM s. RICHARDSON, F BOSTON,.MASSACHUSETTS.

GLOVE- FASTENlNG.

SPBOIIICATIOfi' forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,699, dated septcmbeir sfllflsfi.

Application filed February 9. (No model.) 7 i I if A :l

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it knowu that 1, WILLIAM S. RICHARD- son, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Fastenings for Gloves and other Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature. a The subject-matter of this invention was originally described in n application for Letters Patent of the Unite States filed'Decem ber 19, 1884., Serial No. 150,714, but is withdrawn'therefrom for the purpose of embodying the same in aseparate application. rel tes especially to the portion of my improved fastening known as the flanged sock st, or a flarge or disk of metal having the portions which form the yielding sides of the socket struck down therefrom, and prefer ably from the central or interior part of the disk. I have represented in the drawings this socket ri ng-piece as being secured to a cap and fastening-eyelet, and in the application referred to I have described other but equivalent devices for securing it in place. Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represeats in plan view a blank from which the cap is made. Fig. 2 shows in vertical section the blank after it has been submitted to a forming operation, whereby a rounded upper surface and a short tubular section are formed. Fig. 3 shows in plan the disk from which the flanged socket ismade. Fig. 4 represents in perspective the flanged socket-piece; Fig. 5 shows the same in vertical section. Fig. '6 is a vertical section of a-flangedtubular fastening. Fig.

7 represents the cap, flanged socket-piece, and

I '40 tubular fastening assembled. Fig. Sshows in;

vertical section the parts secured together by the drawing injot the short tube of the cap upon the under surface of the fiange'of the tubular fastening. Fig. 9, showsin sections 5 the complete fastening, also the'washe'r which is employed upon the under surface of [be material to which the fastening is-secured. Fig. '10 represents the fastening as secured to the material, the lower portion of the tubular 5o fastening having been bent outward n on the washer. Figs. 11, 12, and 13 show balldescribed in my said application. shows the relation which the ball-fastening bears to the socket.

A is the cap-blank. It is drawn in suitable, dies to the shape shown in vertical section in Fig. 2, and thenhas the rounded cap a and the short tube a. B is the flanged socket-disk. .The portions forming the yielding sides are drawn down fromthe central portion thereof, and the end of the drawn-down part removed, as well as portions of the sides of thedrawm a slit and holes are first formed in the blank, as

struckdown; or any other process of forming the piece may be employed, and when complete the flanged socket-piece has the flange b and the yielding sides b,- Whl'cil are separated from each other by the openings 1); When formed as shown in Fig. 4, it is preferably made of spring-brass, or of metal harder and more spriugy than the cap-piece of the eyelet, in order that it may better stand constant wear, to which it is subjected, as it forms the prinof course adapted to be secured to the material in any desired way. I have represented only one manner of fastening it in place as an illustration of its use. This comprises the employment of a tubular fastening, 0-, having the flange 0, and the flanged socket-piece is secured thereto by the cap, a portion of the tube a of which is drawn in upon the under In securing the fastening to the material a hole is formed and the fasteuingtube passed through it, and itsedge bent or turned upon the washer placed upon the under surface thereof. (See Fig. 10.) A

Dis the ball or other member of the fastening, and it has a neck, d, and an enlargement above it, and when the two parts of the fastening are'together the bearing-edges b of the socket embracesthe neck of the fastening, or the portion immediately above thesame, but not at the full diameter of the ball. It will'be observed that this flanged socket-piece has three especial features: first, it has the yield- :g-extensions which form the sides of the socketand are jaws which 6.1 8 1120 the 0 member of the fastening device, which is fully Fig. .14

down section, to provide the yielding jaws; or.

shown in Fig. 3, and the yielding jaws then' surface of the flange c, as represented in Fig. 8.

cipal wearingsurface of the fastening. It is of the ball, which preferably are curred. in

, they are separated from each other by a space l suflicient to permit of their yielding or moving in relation to each other; third, these yielding sides or; sockets project from a flange by which they are held or located in place, the flange being the holding device by which they are supported andadapted to be secured in position. It will'be observed, also, that by iiiaking the yielding sides or jaws from the interior section of the disk there is very little waste.

The operation of the fastening is fully described in my said application. Having thus fully descr'bed my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- V t In a fastening for gloves and other articles, the jaw or socket piece having the yielding 2 sides b and flange b, from which the sides project, and by which they are held, all sub stantially as and for the purposes described. e WM. S. RICHARDSON.

Witnessesu .P. K. DUMARESE, F. E. RAYMOND, 2d 

